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LimeWire was a free peer-to-peer file sharing client for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris. [1] Created by Mark Gorton [2] [3] [4] in 2000, it was most prominently a tool used for the download and distribution of pirated materials, particularly pirated music. [5]
The first, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, was intended for IA-64 systems; as IA-64 usage declined on workstations in favor of AMD's x86-64 architecture, the Itanium edition was discontinued in January 2005. [57] A new 64-bit edition supporting the x86-64 architecture, called Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, was released in April 2005. [58]
Downloads can be very fast for popular songs since the user can run a "multi-point download" that simultaneously downloads the same file in small pieces from several users. The WinMX program houses a few built-in features such as bandwidth monitoring, short messaging, and hosting chatrooms and functions as an OpenNap client.
July 2016 – The world's largest torrent site KickassTorrents shuts down. [146] August 2016 – Torrent meta-search engine Torrentz.eu takes its torrents down, but is soon replaced by torrentz2.eu. [147] November 2016 – Private music tracker what.cd shut down. [148]
Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology. P2P file sharing allows users to access media files such as books, music, movies, and games using a P2P software program that searches for other connected computers on a P2P network to locate the desired content. [1]
Famous torrent site RARBG has shut down, blaming a variety of traumatic factors that have left its staff unable to work. The site will be going offline after two “difficult” years, staff said ...
IDM speeds up downloads by splitting the target file into several parts, depending on the file size, then downloading the split files simultaneously. IDM then combines the downloaded split files into a full file. [3] IDM supports a wide range of proxy servers such as firewalls, FTP, HTTP protocols, cookies, MP3 audio and MPEG video processing ...
On March 19, 2008, SlySoft released version 6.4.0.0 of AnyDVD HD, which removes BD+ as well. [5] Version 6.4.6.2, released 22 August 2008, introduced the ability to rip movies to an ISO format. Following the resurrection of AnyDVD (HD) in the Redfox guise, AnyDVD was released in a new version (V8.0.1.0) on 17 May 2016.